Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 21:11:55 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] printk from userspace |
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Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 08:18:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > The patch allows userspace to issue printk's, via sys_syslog(): > > This is an incredibly bad idea. It has security hole written all over it. > Any user can now spam the kernel's log ringbuffer and overrun potentially > important messages. >
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